Summary:
Ridge and Valley Charter School is the sole elementary school located in Blairstown, New Jersey, serving grades K-8 with a total enrollment of 135 students. While the school has some areas of strength, such as its English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency rates, it also faces challenges in Mathematics and Algebra I performance, as well as higher-than-average chronic absenteeism.
Ridge and Valley Charter School has a statewide ranking between 702-832 out of 1,347 New Jersey elementary schools and a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger. The school's ELA proficiency rates range from 20% to 86.7% across grade levels, with most grades performing above the state average, while its Mathematics proficiency rates range from 13.3% to 53.4%, with most grades performing below the state average. Additionally, the school's 8th grade Algebra I proficiency rate of 46.7% is significantly lower than the state average of 72.7%.
Despite the school's relatively high per-student spending of $13,265 and a low student-teacher ratio of 7.5 to 1, the school faces challenges in equity and access. The school's 20% free and reduced-price lunch rate suggests a relatively low-income student population, and the chronic absenteeism rate of 14.9% is higher than the state average, which could be an area of concern requiring further investigation.
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